Nick Halsey

<p>WordPress supports featured images out of the box, allowing images to represent posts in various ways defined by the theme. This plugin adds similar support for audio, allowing musicians, podcasters, and anyone who publishes audio with WordPress to feature audio files on posts and pages in a structured way. Each post and page gets a featured audio metabox where an audio file can be uploaded or selected from the media library.</p>
<p>By default, featured audio is displayed at the top of posts and pages <code>(within the_content)</code>. Developers can change this by adding theme support for <code>featured-audio</code>, via several API functions listed below.</p>
<p>Why use featured audio instead of embeding audio directly into posts? Featured audio organizes the content in a structured way, alowing infinite possibilities to customize the way users experience audio content on your site. The plugin ships with one example of this – the featured audio playlist widget. Add this widget to your sidebar and it’ll automatically display a playlist of all of the audio files featured on posts shown on the current view, on views with more than one post such as the main blog page or a category page. The plugin also supports a recent audio playlist widget, which behaves similarly to a latest posts widget.</p>
<p>For a more comprehensive way to manage <em>music</em> with WordPress, particularly if you need to include sheet music alongisde audio, see the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/sheet-music-library/" rel="ugc">Sheet Music Library</a> plugin.</p>
<h3>Developer API Functions</h3>
<h4>Add Theme Support</h4>
<pre><code>add_theme_support( 'featured-audio' )
</code></pre>
<p>Adding theme support for featured audio tells the plugin not to add the featured audio to the content automatically. Instead, you can add featured audio exactly where you want it with <code>the_featured_content()</code> (see below for details).</p>
<h4>Change Supported Post Types</h4>
<p>By default, the <code>post</code> and <code>page</code> post types are supported. You can use the <code>featured_audio_post_types</code> filter to modify this list. For example:</p>
<pre><code>add_filter( 'featured_audio_post_types', 'prefix_featured_audio_post_types' );
function prefix_featured_audio_post_types( $post_types ) {
    // Add support to the sheet_music post type.
    $post_types[] = 'sheet_music';

    // Overwrite the entire list to remove support on pages.
    $post_types = array( 'post' );

    return $post_types;
}
</code></pre>
<h4>the_featured_audio( $args )</h4>
<p>Display the featured audio, if it exists.</p>
<p>Parameters:</p>
<pre><code>$args                   array   Display options.
$args['id']             int     Post id (optional). Defaults to current post id. 
$args['album_art']      boolean Whether to display the album art for the featured audio cycle. Default: false.
$args['album_art_size'] string  Size to use for the album art picture. Default: thumbnail.
$args['title']          boolean Whether to display the title of the audio attachment. Default: false.
</code></pre>
<h4>get_the_featured_audio( $args )</h4>
<p>Get the featured audio, if it exists, as a string. Has the same arguments as <code>the_featured_audio()</code>.</p>
<h4>get_featured_audio_src( $id )</h4>
<p>Returns the url of the featured audio file, if it exists.</p>
<p>Parameter:</p>
<pre><code>$id int Post id (optional). Defaults to current post id.
</code></pre>
<h4>get_featured_audio_attachment_id( $id )</h4>
<p>Returns the id of the featured audio attachment, if it exists.</p>
<p>Parameter:</p>
<pre><code>$id int Post id (optional). Defaults to current post id.
</code></pre>
<h4>get_the_featured_audio_playlist()</h4>
<p>Get the featured audio playlist, if there are multiple posts with featured audio in the current query. Used by the featured audio playlist widget.</p>
<h4>the_featured_audio_playlist()</h4>
<p>Displays (echoes) <code>get_the_featured_audio_playlist()</code>.</p>


Featured Audio

Add featured audio to your posts and pages, like featured images.

toddiceton

<h3>All the other WordPress mp3 players were crappy or ugly so I made a better one.</h3>
</p>
<p>WPaudio is a simple mp3 player. The minimal design fits any blog. It’s easy to use. It works with mobile devices like iPhone and Android. The file is small and won’t slow down your site.</p>
<h4>Clean design with intuitive controls</h4>
<p>Everything’s tucked out of the way until you click play. Jog the track by clicking the position bar. Simple.</p>
<h4>Easy to install, easy to use</h4>
<p>Install directly from WordPress (just go to <em>Plugins</em> -> <em>Add New</em>) and start embedding mp3s immediately. You can convert all mp3 links or only the ones you select.</p>
<h4>Compatible with your old Audio Player tags</h4>
<p>Want to switch to a better player? Just deactivate Audio Player and WPaudio will take care of it.</p>
<h4>Won’t slow down your site</h4>
<p>WPaudio was written for performance. It uses WordPress’s built-in scripts and HTML5.</p>
<h3>How to use WPaudio</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p>If you want to convert every mp3 link into a player, go to <em>Settings</em> -> <em>WPaudio</em> and select the first option, <em>Convert all mp3 links</em>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>If you want to selectively convert mp3 links, just add the <code>wpaudio</code> class to the links you want converted, like this:</p>
<pre><code><a href="http://url.to/your.mp3" class="wpaudio">Artist - Song</a>
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>
<p>If you want to disable downloads or specify a different download URL, use the advanced tags.</p>
<pre><code>[wpaudio url="http://url.to/your.mp3" text="Artist - Song" dl="0"]
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>
<p>For autoplay, just add autoplay=”1″ to your tags.</p>
<pre><code>[wpaudio url="http://url.to/your.mp3" text="Artist - Song" autoplay="1"]
</code></pre>
</li>
</ul>


WPaudio MP3 Player

Play mp3s and podcasts in posts with the simplest, cleanest, easiest mp3 player. New HTML5 support for iPhone, iPad, Android & mobile browsers.

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